Escape In Chains (1986)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Escape in chains |
| Original title | The Defiant Ones |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Lowell Rich |
| script |
James Lee Barrett , Harold Jacob Smith , Nedrick Young |
| production |
Robert Lovenheim , Robert Urich , Carl Weathers |
| music | Steve Dorff |
| camera | Rexford L. Metz |
| cut | Richard Bracken |
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Escape in Chains (Original title: The Defiant Ones ) is an American feature film from MGM Television, Stormy Weathers Productions and Urich Productions from 1986 with Carl Weathers and Robert Urich in the lead roles. It is a new edition of the film of the same name from 1958. The contemporary film is set in the United States of America and is about two convicts of different skin color who escape chained to each other and come closer. It was published in the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1986.
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The black convict Cullen Monroe, after being harassed by a guard, commits an uncontrollable behavior, whereupon he gets into a physical argument with him. Thereupon he is said to be transferred to another camp with other inmates for discipline . The prisoners are chained together in pairs for this purpose, including Monroe and the white racist Johnny Johnson, known as the Joker. While driving, Monroe provokes Johnson until the driver steps in, causing an accident, allowing Monroe and Johnson to escape.
The escape is initially marked by suspicion and hostility, but over time the fugitives realize that they can only escape together and pull themselves together more and more. Meanwhile, a hundred district sheriffs with a pack of sniffer dogs are tracking the two of them and getting closer to them, which they can also pull together. In a remote workshop, when they want to get rid of the chain, they are caught and detained by the cops, but released out of solidarity by an unknown white man and former victim of police abuse.
Later they get to the run-down and single Pauline, who lives in a trailer with her underage son Clyde. She quickly approaches Johnson, as she did previously unsuccessfully to Sheriff Carpenter, and limits the help for Monroe to the essentials. After cutting the chain with an ax, Monroe leaves them. However, Johnson follows him when he learns that Pauline betrayed Monroe and sent him to certain death. He is shot by Clyde. Regardless of his wounding, he does everything possible to warn Monroe. After Monroe, in return, has unselfishly interceded for him, they are again caught by the hunters.
Reviews
"Superfluous remake of a great role model."
“Banal dialogues and a mediocre staging fit the naivety of the message; The atmospheric photography alone is remarkable. "
Others
- The film was released on VHS cassette.
- Warehouse manager Carpenter forms three chained pairs, one black, one white and one mixed - Monroe and Johnson for the purpose of transport. When he learns at the scene of the accident that only four out of six prisoners have been recovered, two black and two white, and that the constellation is unequivocally established, he nonetheless asks whether there is a mixed couple among the recovered in order to determine the identity of the refugees.
- The handcuffs of the connecting chain as the central film props are real judicial shackles made by the American brand Strauss.
Voice actor
The voice actors for the German version:
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Web links
- Defiant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ Escape in chains. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Escape in chains. (No longer available online.) Synchronkartei.de, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
